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      21 Mar 2008

      To the looking eye art lurks everywhere

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      via: artkrush.com txt: To the trained eye, museum pieces lurk everywhere - International Herald Tribune
      Marc Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective Web site, which exhibits photos of the best street art in the world, knows most people look straight past street art until they start looking for it. "Once you give them a doorway," he said, "they literally go crazy in that they start to see New York has a whole other level of creativity that they had no idea existed." FOR THE MASSES WEB SITES Wooster Collective: www.woostercollective.com Streetsy: www.streetsy.com Flickr: flickr.com - street art groups
      img: Valencia street art - MASSIVE DEFEAT on flickr.com
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      18 Mar 2008

      Is there a future for our past?

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      txt: Is there a Future for our Past? - www.tokyoartbeat.com
      I believe Venice is symbolic of what we’re discussing here. There are not many cities in the world where such a rich past has been conserved. At the same time however, Baghdad, which has a history that goes back to Mesopotamian civilisation, experiences fierce destruction and one of its museums that conserved the first letters in human history was plundered. Two contrasting processes are occurring simultaneously. We can therefore say that when our future is in danger, our past is also in danger. This brings us to the second title. The light that we see is actually sustained by a darkness that is as dark as the light is bright. I encountered Mr. Okabe’s works 6 years ago and I remember being deeply fascinated by the title, which I didn’t fully understand at the time. By slowly discovering Mr. Okabe’s endeavors in Hiroshima however, I came to realise that he was actually transferring the past in its full duality onto paper and this became the theme for our exhibition.
      video: Chihiro Minato and Masao Okabe at Venice Biennale [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fKK437SUCM]
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      18 Mar 2008

      The Move of the Creative Class

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      txt: Who's your city? by Richard Florida
      How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life. It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where you live doesn’t matter: you can telecommute to your high-tech Silicon Valley job, a ski-slope in Idaho, a beach in Hawaii or a loft in Chicago; you can innovate from Shanghai or Bangalore. According to Richard Florida, this is wrong. Place is not only important, it’s more important than ever. Globalization is not flattening the world; on the contrary, the world is spiky. Place is becoming more relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. The choice of where to live, therefore, is not an arbitrary one. It is arguably the most important decision we make, as important as choosing a spouse or a career. In fact, place exerts powerful influence over the jobs and careers we have access to, the people meet and our “mating markets” and our ability to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
      img: Rhizomatic heteromogeneous idiom - jef safi on flickr.com
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      17 Mar 2008

      The economy of kindness

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      txt: kindness - wikipedia
      Kindness is considered to be one of the Knightly Virtues, and is a recognized value in many cultures and religions (see ethics in religion). It is considered to be one of the seven virtues, specifically the one of the Seven Contrary Virtues (direct opposites of the seven deadly sins) that is the direct opposite to envy[1]. The Talmud claims that "deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments." Paul of Tarsus defines love as being `patient and kind...` (I Corinthians). In Buddhism, one of the Ten Perfections (Paramitas) is Mettā, which is usually translated into English as "loving-kindness". Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama wrote "my religion is kindness" and authored a book entitled Kindness, Clarity, and Insight.[2] Confucius urges his followers to "recompense kindness with kindness." According to book two of Aristotle's Rhetoric it is one of the emotions (see list of emotions), which is defined as being "helpfulness towards some one in need, not in return for anything, nor for the advantage of the helper himself, but for that of the person helped"[3]. One of the four caryatids on the Wallace fountains in Paris represents kindness. In a study of 37 cultures around the world, 16000 subjects were asked about their most desired traits in a mate. For both sexes, the first preference was kindness (the second was intelligence).[4] Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had this to say about kindness: Economy of kindness. Kindness and love, the most curative herbs and agents in human intercourse, are such precious finds that one would hope these balsamlike remedies would be used as economically as possible; but this is impossible. Only the boldest Utopians would dream of the economy of kindness.
      img: Quite a precise message - ian boyd on flickr.com
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      14 Mar 2008

      The long Pigtails (a Venice story)

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      txt: Who was Emily Harvey? - Emily Harvey Foundation
      In 1992 she married, Angelo Colombo, her Venetian friend, Her marriage to Angelo brought her to Venice for increasing lengths of time. Under Angelo's tutelage she began to learn Venetian Italian and to understand Venice, and the customs of its people. Out of this grew a commitment to Venice that never faded. Venice is a maze of canals, narrow streets and bridges, connecting a vast network of open campos large and small. Most visitors confine themselves to the big shopping streets, the huge piazza at San Marco, the Ponte Rialto and the Grand Canal. But Emily soon knew every little byway and every tiny campiello, and could navigate her way to any point in the city along dark narrow alleys known only to Venetians. She had a kayak, and learned the canals like a Venetian waterman, who called her "Treccia", pigtails, for the way she wore her hair.
      The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world. img: venezia è un pesce - Fr3ccia on flickr.com
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      12 Mar 2008

      Tomorrow. Now. In Venice

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      txt: Tomorrow now. Work without center. Conferences on the nature of art work in the digital age
      The title of the event introduces the issue concerning works of art that, in the digital age, transform the idea behind exhibition space, the concept of the aesthetic fruition of the observer, and the role of the artist and of the disciplines related to art production. New works of contemporary art are born from collaborative and interactive processes. They are constructed through the immateriality of code and inhabit unusual spaces such as the internet and information streams. They intersect, and are fed by, the increasingly rapid changes in scientific and technological research and require new means of presentation and archiving.
      img: Calm before the Storm - AndreA on flickr.com
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      12 Mar 2008

      Now covered up unfortunately.

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      text: romanywg on youtube
      This is Banksys latest street work on the Essex Road, London N1. I filmed the spot for 1 hour on 6th March 2008. It was interesting to note the diverse cross section of the local community that were interested in his work. Unfortunately it is now covered with perspex to stop it being vandalised. See for yourself. Now covered up unfortunately.
      video: 1 Hour in the life of a Banksy - romanywg on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caEgsHxs-5Y]
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      12 Mar 2008

      97,21 min of unannounced freedom.

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      via: Art News Blog txt: sigurros on youtube.com
      'heima' is sigur rós's first ever film, filmed over two weeks during the summer of 2006 when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in iceland. they hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something, well, inspirational. 'heima' (icelandic for "at home" or "homeland"), truly, shows sigur rós as never before. whereas seeing the group live is normally a large-scale and sometimes overwhelming experience, making full use of lights and mesmeric visuals, 'heima' was always intended to reveal more of what was actually going on on stage. it does this via long-held close-ups and a rare intimate proximity, without ever once breaking the spell.
      video: Sigur Rós 'Heima' [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4s7KeCbV8]
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      5 Mar 2008

      Just learning to listen

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      txt: What's the big idea? - the observer magazine
      It is not impossible to learn how to be more creative. Experiments have shown that just by encouraging people to relax, you can increase the number of ideas that they come up with. Certain forms of meditation are effective as a means of learning how to enter a creative mental state - one that is relaxed and receptive but also awake and alert. Essentially, creativity is all about learning to listen to the unconscious and being able to cultivate that relaxed and alert time that is typical of meditation and dreaming. Very creative people may be able to do this intuitively, but it is important to realise that we were all born with creative minds.
      img: Creative Commons Creativity Poster - maven on flickr.com
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      5 Mar 2008

      YouPay

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      video: Humanity Lobotomy - Second Draft [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw] text: Liberty - wikipedia
      Liberty, in modern time, is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will. Individualist and liberal conceptions of liberty relate to the freedom of the individual from outside compulsion; A socialist perspective, on the other hand, associates liberty with equality in wealth. As such, a socialist connects liberty (i.e. freedom) to the equal distribution of wealth, arguing that liberty without equal ownership amounts to the domination by the wealthy. Thus, freedom and material equality are seen as intrinsically connected. On the other hand, the individualist argues that wealth cannot be evenly distributed without force being used against individuals which reduces individual liberty.
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